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<center> <h1>Announcing OpenDSP project<br> </h1>
Web Service multi-user access to SGE over DRMAA for remote job submission and control<br>
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Poznan -- May 11 2006
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<p>The OpenDSP developers are happy to announce that an additional service exposing the Web Service multi-user access
for job submission, control, and monitoring DRMAA routines in SGE 6.0u4 or later is available now as open source and 100% free.
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In order to download OpenDSP sources and manual please visit the following webpage:<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opendsp">http://sourceforge.net/projects/opendsp</a><br>
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Please join our end users mailing list:<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://hedera.man.poznan.pl/mailman/listinfo/dsp-users">http://hedera.man.poznan.pl/mailman/listinfo/dsp-users</a><br>
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The OpenDSP issue tracker is also available:<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://hedera.man.poznan.pl/flyspray/">http://hedera.man.poznan.pl/flyspray/</a><br>
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Release notes (OpenDSP v0.1 RC1): 
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   <li>Built-in support of DRMAA job submission, control, monitoring and error handling over DRMs</li>
   <li>Authentication and encryption mechanisms based on SSL or GSI (Grid Security Infrastructure)</li>
   <li>Successfully tested with external services based on Globus Toolkit 2.4.x, 3.2.x and 4.0</li>
   <li>Authorization callouts and external access control list</li>
   <li>External accounting and auditing database available</li>
   <li>Stage-in/out operations supported over DIME/MIME attachments</li>
   <li>JSDL 1.0 POSIX based job description</li>
   <li>Successfully tested with the following resource/cluster management systems: SGE (SGEv6u4, SGE v6u5, SGEv6u7, SGEv6u8 recommended)
   <ul>
      <li>Linux x86, kernel 2.4, glibc &gt;= 2.2</li>
      <li>Linux AMD64 (Opteron), kernel 2.4, glibc &gt;= 2.3</li>
      <li>Solaris (Sparc) 9  64-bi</li>
      <li>Solaris (x86) 9</li>
      <li>Apple Mac OS/X</li>
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   <li>Java, .NET and C-based example clients and SDKs available</li>
   <li>Distributed under the GPL license</li>
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